Latino-rocker/crooner PEP TORRES, from Hollywood, CA, plays his own blend of 50s style rock & roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, and rhythm and blues. Pep puts on an incredible show of highly energetic and danceable numbers as well as tender ballads, emphasizing his uniqueness by singing in both English and Spanish!
Originally born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, Pep started singing when he was 15 and by the age of 17 was strumming guitar along with his rockabilly records and he hasn't stopped since! Fronting his own band, PEP TORRES has released four albums on the Hollywood Vintage Records label: "Rockabilidad" (2000), "You and I" (2002), "It Aint Rocket Science" (2004) and “Luck is on My Side”(2006). The last two were also released in Europe on the Rhythm Bomb Records, LTD. label (London). They have also released his fifth album "Muchacho Zafado"(2008). His music is prominent within the roots music genre sub-culture in the United States as well as in Latin America and in Europe where he has been called by some "the new Ritchie Valens" and the King of Latino Rock and Roll.
One review of Torres' music quotes: ".Pep Torres sticks to his Latin roots, in the Valens style, gets close to those pretty faces like Ricky Nelson, and let's himself go with the rockabilly airs of Cochran or Vincent." The Oregonian (Portland’s daily newspaper) affirms: “Pep Torres is one of the keepers of the rockabilly flame…” Similar reviews have popped up in Finland, Norway, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Scotland, Japan and England.
Pep Torres has appeared all over the United States including top venues such as the House of Blues, the Derby, and the Roxy in Hollywood, the Tractor in Seattle, the Crystal Palace in Tombstone, Arizona, and the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas.
Touring on a regular basis away from his native California since 2002, his travels have taken him from Spain to Italy, to Germany, the Netherlands, to Portugal and to Ireland. Most of these with repeat performances. The Nordic regions have also enjoyed Torres’ performances by way of Norway, Finland and Sweden. On his own continent, Pep has toured regularly and repeatedly in Mexico and CanadaWith Abbey Town Jazz Orchestra in Italy, 2010
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phone: (323) 854-5288
